On the Web we all become small-town visitors lost in the big city.
With every generation comes a new wave of hopefuls: small-town escapees, European refugees, disaffected Londoners.
I'm a small-town boy who comes from a traditional family on a tiny island called Belitung. I may not know where I'm going, but I'll always know where to come home to.
I love San Francisco so much. I call it the Emerald City and have been coming here since 1992. I have a few old friends that live here, and my aunt and uncle live in Oakland. I think it's a magical city - it's big, sexy and very 'cosmo' with a small-town feel.
I cannot take away the fact I am a small-town boy from India, from a lower-middle class family, and was actually standing in front of De Niro - not on an equal level, but as an actor, on the same pedestal.
I think the perspective that small-town directors bring to films is very different.
If a small-town boy like me who bagged groceries was able to make his dreams come true, you can too.
I had a chance to choose a couple different places and, well, I grew up - I was a small-town kid from Illinois, so No. 1, just trying to win a championship for my home state.
I am just this small-town Canberra girl that's taken riding a little kid's bike on dirt tracks to the highest level.
Back in eighth grade, I'd seen nothing but small-town Georgia when I left the U.S. for the first time and went to Hong Kong, Taiwan and Mainland China.
